A review by lauren_endnotes
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day by Diane Ackerman

4.0

May our cities be redesigned to include more trees and windows providing a greater sense of sunrise, sunset, and seasons.
May playing in nature not be regarded as idle.
May our health plans cover green holidays to parks and wildernesses as some Scandinavian plans already do.
May our schools teach us to marvel at our humble origins and the minute stuff of the cosmos, and the fascinating life forms we have nonetheless become.
May many people have the opportunity to behold the planet from space, and return with a fuller sense of what 'home' means.
At least once, may madcap roosters serenade us at dawn.

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As a teenager, I discovered Ackerman's [b:A Natural History of the Senses|76611|A Natural History of the Senses|Diane Ackerman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1367463778s/76611.jpg|1224437] at a used bookstore - since that time years ago, I have returned to Ackerman's lyrical prose again and again (luckily, she keeps writing!) Dawn Light came at an interesting time - one where I was truly experiencing these precious pre-dawn and dawn hours in the beautiful city of Vancouver, BC. Daily walks back and forth between locations gave me "time on the ground" in the urban wilderness.